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The USILA released the intitial coaches poll today and Syracuse earned top billiing with four first-place votes and 240 total points. There was more dissention in the coaches poll compared to the preseason media poll, with three teams besides the Orange -- North Carolina (four); Duke (four); and Maryland (one) -- earning first-place ballots. Here's the full poll:
| RANK | TEAM | POINTS | 1ST-PLACE VOTES |
| 1. | Syracuse | 240 | 4 |
| 2. | North Carolina | 236 | 4 |
| 3. | Duke | 230 | 4 |
| 4. | Denver | 215 | 0 |
| 5. | Notre Dame | 200 | 0 |
| 6. | Maryland | 185 | 1 |
| 7. | Virginia | 165 | 0 |
| 8. | Princeton | 162 | 0 |
| 9. | Penn State | 154 | 0 |
| 10. | Albany | 145 | 0 |
| 11. | Johns Hopkins | 136 | 0 |
| 12. | Loyola | 114 | 0 |
| 13. | Yale | 99 | 0 |
| 14. | Ohio State | 95 | 0 |
| 15. | Bucknell | 70 | 0 |
| 16. | Cornell | 67 | 0 |
| 17. | Lehigh | 55 | 0 |
| 18. | Pennsylvania | 48 | 0 |
| 19. | St. John's | 27 | 0 |
| 20. | Villanova | 26 | 0 |
Also receiving votes: Harvard; Fairfield; Towson; Drexel; Massachusetts; Bryant; Hofstra; Air Force; Stony Brook; Army; Navy
The conference breakdown was as follows: ACC (six); Ivy League (four); Patriot League, Big East (three); CAA, ECAC, America East, and Independent (one). The ACC put all six of its members in the top seven of this poll; only the existence of Denver -- ranked fourth -- kept the ACC from sweeping the top of the tally.
